WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW, the sounds are absolutely STUNNING!!! Congratulation MoogMusic, this instrument is a breathtaking experience!!! Can't wait till 12:30 EST today to see and feel the FULL POWER OF THE FORCE!!!

ummagumma wrote:Moog's new website is terrible, I can't even get it to load

yeah, the site is a total user experience miss. I mean just to get to this page I had to click in the upper right to expose a list on the left. Then vertical text? WTF? That is just terrible from a user perspective.

I'd like to know the details about voice assignment modes on the One. On almost all poly synths, if you set up a lead sound with a long release time, it isn't usable in poly mode since it just sounds like a piano with the sustain pedal held down. The only synths I know of that address this are the Oberheim SEM-based 4/8-voice and the Yamaha CS 50/60/80. It's been a long time since I played the Oberheims, but on the Yamahas there's the Sustain I and II modes. Sustain I is like most poly synths but in Sustain II mode, hitting a new key when no keys are currently pressed cancels all the currently sounding notes. Well, technically it's more complicated and is actually doing a sort-of unison mode because of how the keyboard scanning chip works, but the effect is basically the same. This is a super useful feature. The Oberheim's reset/rotate/etc assignment modes can also be useful for combining chord and single-note playing and knowing where notes will glide from and to with portamento on.

So, what does the One do by default and does it have options? I see the One's Mono and Unison buttons and Detune knob. How do these work? If I'm in Unison, is there a menu option to determine number of voices triggered? Is there dynamic unison so playing one note triggers all 8 (assuming 8-voice) voices but playing a 4-note chord triggers 2 voices for each key? If I'm in unison, can I choose last/low/high assign like the Mini re-issue? Can I choose legato/re-trigger for envelopes and legato-only portamento so I can use the One as a mono synth?

Finally, from Amos' videos yesterday, he was answering a question about poly aftertouch. It sounded like he was saying that the One could, in theory, respond to it via MIDI but it's not implemented yet. Is that right? Is it planned for an upcoming firmware release? What about MPE?